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Greer Garson was born Eileen Evelyn Greer Garson on September 29, 1904, in London, England. She was of Scottish and Ulster-Scots descent. Her father was a commercial clerk.
Garson attended King's College London with the intention of becoming a teacher, but the acclaim she received while acting in local theatrical productions convinced her to pursue a stage career.
In 1937, Garson acted in a half-hour television broadcast of an excerpt from TWELFTH NIGHT that is said to have been the first performance of a Shakespeare play on TV.
That same year, Garson signed a contract with MGM. Her first film was GOODBYE, MR. CHIPS (1939), for which she received a Best Actress Oscar nomination.
In all, Garson received seven Oscar nominations, including five consecutive Best Actress nominations, a record she shares with Bette Davis. She won for MRS. MINIVER (1942).
Garson delivered what is still the longest acceptance speech in the history of the Academy Awards, clocking on at five minutes and 30 seconds. She never won another Oscar.
After filming MRS. MINIVER, Garson wed Richard Ney, the actor who played her son in the film. The second of her three husbands, he was 12 years her junior; the marriage lasted just over five years.
From 1941-53, Garson portrayed Walter Pidgeon's wife in eight films. The two were never romantically involved off-screen, but they remained lifelong friends.
In 1949, Garson married E. E. "Buddy" Fogelson, an oilman and horse breeder; they resided in New Mexico and Dallas. After she retired from films in 1967, she devoted herself to philanthropy and caring for Fogelson.
In 1993, Garson was named Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). In her final years, she resided in a suite at Dallas Presbyterian Hospital, where she died on April 6, 1996.